Socieacuteteacute Generale. Pour la victoire du droit. Souscrivez au 4e Emprunt de la Deacutefense Nationale – Vintage Print
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A window into the past: Socieacuteteacute Generale. Pour la victoire du droit. Souscrivez au 4e Emprunt de la Deacutefense Nationale, preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Socieacuteteacute Generale. Pour la victoire du droit. Souscrivez au 4e Emprunt de la Deacutefense Nationale
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Its slogan, "So that right may prevail," frames the appeal to buy bonds as a moral cause, and the figure of Marianne, the national emblem of France, personifies that cause. The poster was made in 1918 by William Malherbe for the Société Générale, a major French bank that helped sell the government's war loans. The Emprunts de la Défense Nationale raised money from ordinary citizens to finance the war effort, and this fourth loan came in the final months of the First World War. The poster's catalog record also notes German military personnel among its subjects, a reminder of the enemy the bond drives were meant to defeat.
| Created / published | 1918 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 44 x 28 cm. |
| Notes | Translation of title: Socieacuteteacute Generale. So that right may prevail. Subscribe to the 4th National Defense Loan. Signed: William Malherbe 1918. Promotional goal: Fr. J8. 1918. Item is no. 54 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. AAR · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | Marianne (French emblem)--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Military personnel--German. War bonds & funds--France--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 2,743 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1649_Socieacuteteacute_Gener_1918 |
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